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November 17, 2011 |
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World Powers Express 'Deep Concern' on Iran
Simon Sturdee | AFP
World powers Thursday overcame divisions at the UN atomic agency with a resolution of "deep" concern on Iran's nuclear programme, but without reporting Tehran to the UN Security Council or setting any deadline.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, meanwhile proposed to the Islamic republic a "high-level" visit to clarify issues raised in the watchdog's damning new report on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive.
He told reporters: "The information we have received in the past three years has given us a clearer picture of Iran's nuclear programme. We now have more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. "It is clear that Iran has a case to answer."
The resolution tabled at the IAEA by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, the P5+1, "expresses deep and increasing concern" about Iran's activities.
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Fredrik Dahl | Reuters
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Times of India
The countdown has begun. Within three months, India will gatecrash the super-exclusive ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) club, largely the preserve of countries like the US, Russia and China that brandish long-range strategic missiles with strike ranges well beyond 5,500 km.
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Fresh from her Asia-Pacific Economic Forum meeting in Hawaii, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that at the next month's Labor Party annual convention she would seek support from her party to end the ban on exports of uranium to India.
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France 24
France needs to shore up safety mechanisms in its nuclear reactors to avoid catastrophe in the event of a natural disaster, the head of the French nuclear safety agency has said, although he does not forsee a need to close any facilities. After Japan's Fukushima disaster in March, France decided to carry out safety tests on the country's 58 reactors.
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Matthew L. Wald | New York Times
The question of what to do with spent nuclear fuel from civilian power reactors has stirred renewed interest in reprocessing — that is, chopping up the fuel, retrieving materials that can power a reactor, and possibly recovering the most troublesome waste products so they can be broken up in the reactor into easier-to-handle elements.
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